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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...
Background: The conventional forms of waistline reshaping are a tummy tuck and liposuction. These procedures will work well for the aesthetic needs of the vast majority of women. Numerous variations exist within these procedure to trying magnify their effects such as horizontal fascial plication in tummy tucks and aggressive liposuction techniques for maximal fat reduction Read More…
Background: The external ear has a remarkable topographic complexity to it for being such a small craniofacial structure. Its many hills and valleys (convexities and concavities) give rise to over fifteen different subunit names. The earlobe is the only flat surface structure on the whole ear that has has no cartilage support. Despite its anatomic Read More…
Background: While contouring by fat reduction is a very common aesthetic approach for the body, it is must less frequently done in the face. Between the much proportionally smaller amount of fat and the restricted access to it by the facial nerves, the amount of facial contouring by fat reduction limits how much facial reductive Read More…
Background: There are many upper body muscles that men strive to build by exercise. These include the arm (bicep and tricep) and chest (pectoral) muscles for which aesthetic implant augmentations can be done to assist or replace the need for strenuous exercise. But one upper body muscle that is often developed by weight training is Read More…
Background: The best method to aesthetically augment the entire forehead is with a custom implant approach. Being able to select the exact dimensions and shape of the implant beforehand and design it on the patient’s 3D CT scan offers a huge aesthetic advantage over creating the augmentation by hand intraoperatively with bone cements. While there Read More…
Background: Brow bone reduction is a facial contouring procedure to reduce the supraorbital rim protrusion above the eyes. While it is most commonly associated with facial feminization surgery, it is also done in men for very large brow bone protrusions that are often associated with a backward slanting forehead. Of the two available brow bone Read More…
Background: Despite its small size the ear has a complex topographic surface. Composed of numerous convexities and concavities (hills and valleys) the ear’s underlying cartilaginous structure offers diverse features of which their exact purpose remains unclear. Isolated from the main cartilage body, on an island so to speak, is the tragus. This is a small Read More…
Background: The skull is usually depicted as having an oblong shape with an overall smooth surface. While this is usually true, it is prone to have numerous bony irregularities. Most of skull irregularities occur along its suture lines particlerly where the differ suture lines merge. This would be understandable as these are areas of bone Read More…
Background: The shape of the head is largely determined by the underlying bone. This is certainly true from the brow bones back to the nuchal ridge on the bsck of the head. This is less true on the sides of the head where the temporalis muscle makes a significant part of its thickness. But the Read More…
Background: As a projecting structure from the side of the head with a funnel-like and flexible attachment, the ear can withstand a wide variety of deforming forces. Its very flexibility protects it from injury when exposed to shearing forces. Like a palm tree in high winds its ability to bend is a protective mechanism. But Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...